Black Mirror (2011) – Charlie Brooker
“As we contemplate the world converted into a huge machine and managed by engineers, we gradually grow aware of its
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Arts
Better Food for a Better World (2013) – by Erin McGraw (book review)
In five minutes he had them tossing Indian clubs at each other, precise as a metronome. Watching them reminded Vivy
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) – Wes Anderson
I many times thought peace had come When peace was far away, As wrecked men deem they sight the land
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – Christopher Nolan
“It is said, that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True; if the constitution of a kingdom
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Machine Gun Preacher (2011) – Marc Forster
“I have been thinking,” said Arthur, “about Might and Right. I don’t think things ought to be done because you
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The Dekalog: Episode I (1989) – Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
“And God spake all these words, saying, “I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the
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Ivan’s Childhood (1962) – directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
“They sent me out by plane to a boarding school, but I ran away. You just eat up grain supplies
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The Swell Season (2011) – directed by Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, & Carlo Mirabella-Davis
The Swell Season is a melancholy and meditative documentary on romance, music and fame. The Swell Season is also the actual name for
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The Cabin in the Woods (2012) – directed by Drew Goddard
“After the prize-giving the valedictions; after the phone call a brief sense of what happiness would be like; after the
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When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012) – by Marilynne Robinson
Modern Ciceronian Musical English Prose ______________________________________________________________________________________________ “At a certain point I decided that everything I took from studying and reading
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